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Cold Comfort Farm (film) Quotes

Cold Comfort Farm (film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Cold Comfort Farm ended in 1970.

It features Alison Gilby as producer, Robert Lockhart in charge of musical score, and Chris Seager as head of cinematography.

Cold Comfort Farm (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Cold Comfort Farm (film) is 95 minutes long. Cold Comfort Farm (film) is distributed by BBC (UK).

The cast includes: Sheila Burrell as Ada Doom, Harry Ditson as Earl P. Neck, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Joanna Lumley as Mrs. Smiling, Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste, Christopher Bowen as Charles, Stephen Fry as Mybug, and Eileen Atkins as Judith Starkadder.

Cold Comfort Farm (film) Quotes

Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste

  • (Kate Beckinsale) "I'm willing to bet there are also cousins called Seth and Reuben."
  • (Joanna Lumley) "Why?"
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Highly sexed young men living on a farm are always called Seth or Reuben."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Jane Austen and I have so much in common; neither of us can endure mess."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Besides, I want to learn about real life."
  • (Christopher Bowen) "What for?"
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "To put it in books."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "It was winter. The grimmest hour of the darkest day of the year. The Golden Orb had almost disappeared behind the interlacing fingers of the hawthorn."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "I try to bring people around to the higher common sense."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "When I am 53, I hope to write a novel as good as "Persuasion," but in a modern setting."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "What a pleasant life might be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Oh Charles. You do have heavenly teeth"
  • (Christopher Bowen) "Come on."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Bull's out. Is that bad?"
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Highly sexed young men living on farms are always called Seth or Reuben."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Then, you have no idea what you're going to say before you get there?"
  • (Ian McKellen) "Aye. I always know it'll be something about burnin'."

Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder

  • (Ian McKellen) "They'll all burn in hell, and someone's gotta tell 'em so."
  • (Ian McKellen) "The Lord will provide. Or not, as is his whim."
  • (Ian McKellen) "The Lord will provide. Or not, according to His will."
  • (Ian McKellen) "Well, some of us has farming to do."
  • (Ian McKellen) "Seth, you drain the well. There's a neighbor missing."

Christopher Bowen as Charles

  • (Christopher Bowen) "Do you ever think of getting married?"
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "I believe in arranged marriages, don't you?"
  • (Christopher Bowen) "Rather out of date."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Not at all. I've always like the phrase, "A marriage has been arranged." When I feel like it, I'll arrange one."
  • (Christopher Bowen) "If you get bored, where ever you are, phone. I'll come and rescue you in my plane."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Have you a plane, Charles?"
  • (Christopher Bowen) "Ummmm. A Belisha Bat called Speed Cop II."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Are you sure an embryo parson have a plane?"
  • (Christopher Bowen) "Everyone should have a plane."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Really, Charles."
  • (Christopher Bowen) "We are all purified by suffering."

Joanna Lumley as Mrs. Smiling

  • (Joanna Lumley) "In fact, when poetry is combined with ill-groomed hair and eccentric dress, it's generally fatal. You're very lucky, Elfine. He must have seen your finer points."
  • (Joanna Lumley) "I mean there probably isn't even a bathroom."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "It is Sussex, for goodness' sake."
  • (Joanna Lumley) "Of course you may stay here as long as you like. But I expect you should want to find some work to earn enough for a flat of your own."
  • (Kate Beckinsale) "Work. What kind of work?"
  • (Joanna Lumley) "Oh, it's been ages since I've done any, but there must be something that would do -- bookkeeping -- beekeeping --"
  • (Joanna Lumley) "It's bad to be dewy-eyed around smart people, but you can always secretly despise them."

Harry Ditson as Earl P. Neck

  • (Harry Ditson) "I don't want sissies. It's red meat time in the movies."

Stephen Fry as Mybug

  • (Stephen Fry) "Let me warn you: I'm a queer, moody brute, but there's rich soil in here if you care to dig for it."
  • (Stephen Fry) "We met in London."
  • (Ian McKellen) "Aye, the Devil's city. The stinking pit of whoredom."
  • (Stephen Fry) "Miss Poste. Miss Poste. I'm engorgingly in love with you."

Eileen Atkins as Judith Starkadder

  • (Eileen Atkins) "I'm a dead woman."
  • (Harry Ditson) "I'd take her too, but she's gloomy."
  • (Eileen Atkins) "Get back to the vicarage, Violet."

Sheila Burrell as Ada Doom

  • (Sheila Burrell) "You won't find me plucking my eyebrows, nor dieting, nor doting on a boy 25."
  • (Sheila Burrell) "Who will care for Feckless, Aimless, Graceless and Pointless?"
  • (Sheila Burrell) "There has always been Starkadders on Cold Comfort Farm."
  • (Sheila Burrell) "I saw something nasty in the woodshed."
  • (Harry Ditson) "Sure you did, but did it see you, baby?"

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